Redneck video card fan

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:12 pm

The small fan on my video card was driving me insane so I fixed'er up real good.

MUCH more quiet, and no more whining.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:11 pm

Are those rubber bands??

If you remove the little lables on the fan; under 1 of them you will see a hole -actually it's the end of the fan shaft .

Run some light oil in there or silicone or WD-40 & you won't
have to put a rubber on your fan.

Besides, if your fan is Catholic -it can't use a rubber.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:28 pm

The old fan? Nah, I wanted to just replace it with a more quiet one.

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:58 pm

That is hilarious. I wouldn't do that myself, though. Video cards get pretty hot, right? So the rubber would melt, no?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 6:24 pm

I suppose if I put the rubber right on the gpu it could melt but where it is now should be fine. Only thing that worries me is the hot glue melting, it's glued on the heat sink, and 2 capacitors. while the 2 capacitors most likely don't get hot enough to melt hot glue, the heatsink might. So far so good though. I'd have to play a graphic intense game to check the structural integrity of this mod.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:01 pm

You should buy an adhesive called 'GOOP"

It's great & it turns into a kind of silicone/rubber looking stuff when it drys so it absorbs some vibration & it's waterproof.

Also to remove it you just pull the adhered surfaces apart untill it lets go.

It's strong. I've even mounted air intakes for an engine under the bumper with it.

GOOP SITE

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Pyr-O-Rgasm · Post by **Pyr-O-Rgasm** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:02 pm

richardj wrote: You should buy an adhesive called 'GOOP"

It's great & it turns into a kind of silicone/rubber looking stuff when it drys so it absorbs some vibration & it's waterproof.

Also to remove it you just pull the adhered surfaces apart untill it lets go.

It's strong. I've even mounted air intakes for an engine under the bumper with it.

GOOP SITE

Wow, this entire site is rednecks.

I'm buying me some of that Goop. Sounds awesome.

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tw2 · Post by **tw2** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:29 pm

Well Red
looks like it will have enough air movement ,next time you might want to think about using standoffs works a little better for the mounts

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but good job on cutting down the noise

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:03 pm

Yeah, though the capacitors serve as nice standoffs.

(can't really see in the picture) They were about 1/4 inch too short compared to the heat sink which also served as a standoff, but nothing a huge dab of glue can't fix.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:24 pm

Pyr-O-Rgasm wrote:
Wow, this entire site is rednecks.

I'm buying me some of that Goop. Sounds awesome.

The only thing about though is that it takes like 24 hours to actually cure.

So you always have to support or bungee cord or whatever the things together for awhile.

Although it starts to set up pretty good after about a half an hour. It sets up faster if you put a hair dryer on it.

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tw2 · Post by **tw2** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:13 pm

nothing a hot glue gun wont makes short work of , and the small fans on the video cards just dont hold up.and finding the right one for replacement is a joke.
never have the right one so as long as there is room bigger is better so they say .
i buy video card with big heat sinks on them never worry about fans on the cards as long as i have fans in the case i have no problems with cooling

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:56 pm

Yeah chances are with my cooling I'd be fine without the fan. But since theres no way of checking video card temp it's better safe than sorry. I feel like putting the fan on the 5v line though. that's super quiet. I have 2 fans like that, and I don't even notice a difference wether they are on or off.

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